N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots.

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Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 288

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 26, 2015

For years management has failed to generate organic growth. Nonetheless, sheer size provides huge economies of scale throughout their operation, especially in production, overheads, distribution and marketing. Kraft is a rather interesting case in shareholder value. The history of mergers and acquisitions at Kraft is a long one.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In the public arena, we vote for our leaders (this may provide the most obvious connection to our responsibility for bad leadership): In this case, we might ignore bad past behavior before we cast our vote. We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. Worse yet, we may not vote for anyone.

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Leadership Follow-up Blog Greenleaf 150

Strategy Driven

MARCH 29, 2012

Employees cannot help but believe the dollar means more to management than their commitment to the principles to which they espouse. Time and again, companies fail, in part, because of the financial burden and managerial distraction of serving customers outside of the organization’s core competencies.

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Marketing Document Mission Statement Core Competence 67

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

Rather than developing a narrow self-image that pigeonholes a firm in a particular market sector, or locks it up in a certain product or service category, radical innovators are able to stretch the way they define their business based on its collection of core competencies and strategic assets.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Just goes to show what great leadership can do! By Jess Chipkin , Geneca, Manager of Public and Community Relations. Often considered the “Mother of Cause Marketing”, Ms. I wanted to learn more so I connected with Lisa Kimmel, General Manager of the Toronto office. A New Direction for Corporate Giving.

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Ryan PR Project B2B 130

Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 3, 2011

In this world I’ve learned that there are very few quick fixes, despite what you might hear from marketers. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Patience and perseverance. You must have both. Together, and at the same time.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. This is really the compilation of many years of being a manager and teaching managers. What are the 8 skills?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Core Competencies. Performing market assessments.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

So, find a mentor, hire a coach, take a 360, read some self-development or leadership books. When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers. And whe leadership models it, perhaps it will catch on with others too. Attend a retreat.

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Class Open-book 185

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2010

’ As I began to read marketing materials, it was clear I needed to create a multitude of product and service which seemed close to impossible. As a job seeker, my advice is to not focus on one core area of expertise but think of complementary avenues you may pursue to increase your chances of finding interesting work.

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Audience Newsletter Core Competence Tips 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points. Similarly, marketing loves the virality that social media and network effects facilitate.

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Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. They were using sort of these old models of that’s not a fear, that’s not core, that’s not our core competency, etc.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

You also have to retain, direct, and eventually promote them — something that managers from other backgrounds can find daunting. Modern design schools increasingly encourage this, demanding that graduates be familiar not just with a traditional creative skillset, but with ethnography, finance, coding, and a host of other competencies.

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Management Creativity Licensing Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The result has been so much more than a marketing ploy – it has changed the care being delivered. I thought of how most organizations attract patients using the “star” system – they market the superstar cardiologist or neurosurgeon, for example. University of Utah put case management right in the intensive care units.

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Health Care Examples Mayo Management 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The result has been so much more than a marketing ploy – it has changed the care being delivered. I thought of how most organizations attract patients using the “star” system – they market the superstar cardiologist or neurosurgeon, for example. University of Utah put case management right in the intensive care units.

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Health Care Examples Mayo Management 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's leadership is very smart and Wi-Fi is part of the firm's core competence. How a blue chip technology innovator invests well over $700 million acquiring, developing, distributing and marketing a consumer digicam without a clear path connecting it to the most popular wireless medium around escapes me.

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Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

To ensure a truly transformative culture change effort, the team outlined a new corporate-wide organizational strategy to sit alongside its other market-focused strategies: “Foster a culture of insight and innovation.” Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

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Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

companies are discovering the appeal and opportunity of talent in emerging markets. Smart, ambitious women make up the majority of this talent pool, but time and time again, these women are being overlooked when it comes to assigning leadership positions. reveals to be a core competency of global executives.

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Core Competence Emotional Intelligence Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Dig into the genesis of a paradigm-busting new product or service, and you'll usually find that its success owes more to the indomitable spirit of a lone innovator than to the obliging climate of an inherently pro-innovation management model. Ultimately, every management process must be a catalyst for innovation.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies.

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Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a recent interview, Benko discussed AT&T’s efforts and offered advice for HR leaders and individual managers on how today’s workforce can avoid obsolescence. HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market.

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Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

In sharp contrast to Nokia's approach, Apple offered developers a uniform development environment and a direct path to market. Rushing your innovation to market before your co-innovators are ready can result in a costly delay at the starting line. Absent a convincing answer to why they should give up the rewards of leadership (e.g.,

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Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. From the perspective of the senior management at many companies, missing sales targets is a failure in the execution of an analytically sound strategy.). Insight center.

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Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

New Coke lasted 79 days before the original formula returned to the market. At Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh has set his cultural sights on a holacracy management system a radical change from conventional structures. By nature, marketing people are dynamic and impatient. As a management principle, change ought to be the status quo.

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Brand Core Competence Retail Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk. The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

If your company had just announced a 27% increase in revenues in this market, you'd probably be quite happy. And you'd think the market would be, too. Like many other companies that have a core product line, Google is struggling to find its next market. It's what a 20th century manager would do. Giddy even.

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Micromanagement Open-book Parcell Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 20, 2019

Worse, if you ask for help and the person across from you stares back, tries to smile, but only manages something that indicates they need the bathroom. Who knows where these people come from, but it’s a market-driven profession, so buyer beware. When we move out of our core competency, we often feel vulnerable and weak.

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Core Competence Uncertainty Learning-by-Doing Open-book 88

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. treating suppliers as partners).

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Build off its core competence, or play from weakness? The company lost its leadership of the very industry that it had invented back in 1973. And it wasn’t alone – another audio leader, Sony, similarly lost market share in electronics because of its analog bias. Internal debate raged.

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Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 26, 2011

Leadership. by John • June 27, 2011 • Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. Isn’t top management supposed to be the strategic experts of the organization? tell me, who is going take all that time to teach them enough about the business and the market to add value? Leadership. In the CEO Afterlife.

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Strategic Planning Planning CEO SWOT 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

When modular in design, they adapt easily for different markets and can evolve over time. Pratt & Whitney has partnered with IBM to enhance its engine management offering. GM executives initially considered a partnership but quickly recognized that self-driving knowhow was a necessary core competence. Consider GE.

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Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Internally, examine culture, leadership, process, and people, as well as the value proposition you offer to customers. It provides the organization a way to stay focused on your core competencies and prevents you from being distracted by opportunities that do not fit your purpose. Describing why you exist as an organization.

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Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

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